In a series of devastating decisions, the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court has aligned itself with the administration's pitiless campaign against immigrants of color. Delivering a massive blow to human rights and international law, the court's 6-3 majority has effectively dismantled decades of humanitarian protections. By granting the executive branch near-total authority to selectively administer and circumvent immigration laws, the court has signaled that it is entirely unwilling to confront the racist and nativist philosophy driving the administration’s policies.

On Thursday, the court handed down two rulings that strip away safety nets for vulnerable populations fleeing violence and environmental disaster. The first allows the administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti and Syria. These communities have lived, worked, and built families legally in the United States for over a decade. The sudden removal of these protections threatens to tear families apart and deport them back to the very crises they fled.

In its second Thursday ruling, the court cleared the way for the administration to block asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border physically. Under this "metering" policy, border officials are instructed to stand directly on the boundary line and block desperate migrants from ever stepping foot on US soil. By preventing them from crossing the physical border, the administration denies these individuals their legal right to seek asylum, turning away families fleeing violence before they can even state their claims.

These decisions follow a ruling on Tuesday that strips security from legal immigrants already residing in the country. The court granted border officials exceptionally broad discretion to deport lawful permanent residents—individuals holding green cards. By eroding the rights of long-term, lawful residents, the court has sent a clear message that no immigrant of color, regardless of their legal status, is truly secure in America.

Meanwhile, another critical decision looms over the court: whether the administration can strip birthright citizenship from thousands of children born in the US to temporary visitors and undocumented immigrants. If the court rules in favor of the administration, it will radically redefine who has the right to be considered American, targeting the children of immigrants of color and further entrenching systemic exclusion.

Throughout these cases, the court’s conservative majority has actively ignored the explicit racial animus fueling these policies. On the very day of the TPS ruling, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the President’s notorious public assertions—including calling Haiti a "shithole country" and claiming that Haitian immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of the nation—did not prove that the administration's policies were "overtly racial." This shocking defense effectively shields systemic racism from judicial scrutiny, allowing the administration to continue its exclusionary policies.